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Revision as of 11:13, 8 November 2023
HMS CHURCHILL, ROYAL NAVY
| English | Barry wavy of six white and cleste blue; alion rampant guardant white amred and langued red charged on the shoulder with a hurst thereon a mullet white and holding between the forepaws a staff gold flying therefrom to sinister a flag red charged with a dexter hand appaumy white. Motto: Veteris vestigia flammae |
Origin/meaning
From the Crest of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722). Two Towns in the UK and one in Georgia, USA. The Ship was an ex US Navy Lend/Lease Destroyer, hence the Us Military Star. The Latin Motto transaltes as "A spark of the old flame". The badge was approved on 1 October 1941. In 1999 A Painting of this Badge was presented to the US Navy Destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill.
Literature: Image from Pinterest. Information from Admiralty Badges Ecyclopaedia by T.P. Stopford.
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